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Reading, writing and hunger: More than 13 million kids in this country go to school hungry By Jaimie Seaton, March 9 Every once in a while my teenage son gets in the car after school and complains that he didn’t get enough to eat at lunch, so struggled through the last period with a raging...  Read More

Dracut End 68 Hours of Hunger will be having a fundraiser at the Texas Roadhouse, 580 Amherst St, Nashua, NH 03063 on Thursday, March 30th, from 3:30-9:00 pm.  Texas Roadhouse will donated 10% of your total food purchases to the fundraiser. There will be 3 amazing Easter baskets to be raffled off. Tickets are available through March 30th at Texas...  Read More

The Sacopee Valley End 68 Hours of Hunger chapter will be holding their 3rd Annual Silent Auction and Raffle, Monday March 27th from 4:30-9:00 p.m at Fairgrounds Pizza & Pub, 156 Maple Street, Cornish, Maine.   This is their BIGGEST fundraiser of the year. An entire night of fun includes, raffles, light Hors D’oeuvres, hourly door prizes &...  Read More

The Somersworth and Dover chapters of End 68 Hours of Hunger are joining forces to throw an all out, festive, fun, musical Mardi Gras celebration! Please come and help us raise money for our organization that feeds hungry kids on the weekends. Event is Saturday, April 29th at 6:00pm. Dover’s Elk’s Lodge #184 282 Durham...  Read More

PayPal Class Action Suit Does NOT Impact End 68 Hours of Hunger You may have heard that some charities are bringing a class action suit against PayPal for routing donations made to charities to other charities.  PayPal can only route donations to charities that have an account with PayPal, and we DO! Please don’t have...  Read More

Delicious Soup, Cold Beer and Warming Entertainment! Come get your fill of warm, delicious, unlimited soup samples, music and cheer at the must attend event of the winter, Soup’s On! Bring friends and family to sample over 30 varieties of delicious unlimited soup samples, all while enjoying craft beers provided for purchase by Sam Adams and...  Read More

Program Coordinators Meredith Everett and Tracy Stanek at End 68 Hours of Hunger, Lake County, Ohio were expecting donations to drop this time of year which inspired them to start a backpack campaign called “Spread the Love, Share A Can”. A printable flyer was posted on their Facebook page for the community to download, print and...  Read More

A 100 day challenge was held at Rollinsford Grade School for End 68 of Hunger in Rollisford, NH. They collected 619 donations! Very impressive for a small school. Thank you to everyone involved in the food drive!  Read More

Sandy Kennedy, the Tampa Bay End 68 Hours of Hunger pantry coordinator became aware that some of the children that walked home from school were having trouble getting their food home. One of the social workers suggested a pull along type grocery cart. She found one called the Rolling Fabric Fold Up Bag Cart sold by the Honey Can Do...  Read More

End 68 Hours of Hunger would like to thank the volunteers that helped keep the Eliot/South Berwick, Maine chapter running. Tricia Foster, coordinator of the program, had no assistant and said she may have to leave the volunteer post after three years of running it on her own. An article posted in Seacoast Online resulted in...  Read More